Whether or not Woody Harrelson got cancelled, Scott Adams who cartoons Dilbert certainly did get cancelled this week.
Feb. 26, CNN:
Hundreds of newspapers drop ‘Dilbert’ comic strip after racist tirade from creator Scott Adams
The USA Today Network, which operates hundreds of newspapers, said it had pulled the plug on the long-running comic strip. The Washington Post and The Plain Dealer also in Cleveland said they would no longer carry the comic.
The move came after Scott Adams, the cartoonist behind “Dilbert,” effectively encouraged segregation in a shocking rant on YouTube. His comments came in response to a poll from the conservative firm Rasmussen Reports that said 53% of Black Americans agreed with the statement, “It’s OK to be White.”
The Anti-Defamation League has noted that the phrase emerged on the infamous message board 4chan in 2017 as a trolling campaign and has a “long history” in the white supremacist movement.
“If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with White people – according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll – that’s a hate group,” Adams said Wednesday on his YouTube show “Real Coffee with Scott Adams.”
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“I don’t want to have anything to do with them,” Adams added. “And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people, just get the f**k away … because there is no fixing this.”
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I don't know, Adams may have overstated. It was only 47%, not a majority, of blacks in a poll that don't like whites to exist, but all polls are lies.
I would say it's true we need to stay well away from blacks, what with all the crime and violence and other issues, but it was impractical for him to say that, IMO.
Newspapers across the country dropped the "Dilbert" comic strip over the weekend after the creator of the satirical cartoon went on a racist tirade, calling Black Americans a "hate group" and suggesting that White people should "get the hell away" from them.
www.cnn.com
What do people think? He's a popular, major cartoonist. Should they cancel him for speaking his mind in that way?